From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/news/a860911/buffy-tara-death-   
   eason-6-regrets/   
      
   Buffy show runner regrets killing Tara and says divisive season 6 "went too   
   far"   
      
   "Did she have to die?"   
      
   In Willow and Tara, Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a groundbreaking   
   relationship for its time.   
      
   Tara Maclay, played by Amber Benson, was introduced midway through the   
   fourth season and became a hugely popular character.   
      
   Unfortunately, after 47 episodes on the show, she was cruelly killed off   
   towards the back-end of season six, shot by a stray bullet. The moment set   
   up the Dark Willow storyline.   
      
   Marti Noxon, executive producer for Buffy's final two seasons  commented on   
   Tara's death as well as the divisive and darker sixth season, admitting that   
   she has some regrets.   
      
   "There were parts of season six where I feel we went too far," she told   
   Vulture. "We pushed into some categories that almost felt sadistic and that   
   Buffy was volunteering for things that were beyond just 'bad choices' and   
   were almost irresponsible for the character.   
      
   "That may have to do with my own history! The personal, right? It's   
   personal.  And I think that killing Tara was – in retrospect, of all the   
   people, did she have to die?"   
      
      
       [If they were going to make Willow the Big Bad for S6, then something   
   was going to have to happen to make her evil. And as was pointed out years   
   ago, nothing else would have turned Willow evil like having Tara being   
   killed  (and not just dying as Buffy's mom did). That being said, I also   
   wish Tara hadn't been killed off.]   
      
      
   David   
      
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